The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-09
Bill Nyo's New Teeth.

torial assertions are not 80 fresh.
You do not state that you shave
come to stay" this week, but 1 infer
that you occupy the same position
you did last week with reference to
that.
1 was more especially interested in
your piece about how to rear children
and the care of parents. / read it to
your mother last night while she
was setting her bread. Nothing
tickles me very often at my time of
life. and when I laugh loud peal
of laughter at any thing nowadays
it's got to be a pretty blamed good
thing, can tell you that. But your
piece about bringing up children
made me laugh real hard. / enjoy a
piece like that from the pen of a
juicy young brain like yours. 1t
almost made me young again to read
the words of my journalistic gosling
son.
You also say that "teething is the
most trying time for parents" Do
you mean that parents are more fret
full when they are teething than any
other time? Your mother and me
reckoned that you must mean that.
If so, it shows your great research.
How mere child hardly out of kuee-
panties, young shoot like you, who
was never a parent for a moment in
his life, can enter into and under
stand the woes that beset parents is
more than / can understand. IfyOu
had been through what l have while
teething 1 could see how you might
understand and write about it, but at
present do not see through it. The
first teeth 1 cut as parent made me
very restless. was sick two years
ago with a new disease that was just
out, and the doctor gave me some
thing for it that made my teeth fall
like the leaves of autumn. In six
weeks after I began to convalesce
my mouth was perfectly bald-head-
ed. For days l didn't bite into a
Ben DAVIS apple that l didn't leave
a fang into it.
Well, after that 1 saw an adver.
tisement in the Hurdl R,kstier-a
paper l used to take then-of a place
where you could get set of teeth for
sfx dollars. didn't want to buy a
kigh-priced and gaudy set of teeth
at the tail end of such life as l had
led. and 1 knew that teeth, no matter
how expensive they might be. would
be of little avail to coming genera
tions, so I went over to the place
named in the paper and got an i'm.
preston of my mouth taken.
There is really nothing in this life
that will take the stiff-necked pride
out of man like viewing a plaster
cast of his tottering mouth. The
dentist fed me with large ladle full
of putty or plaster of paris. 1 reckon,
and told me to hold it in my mouth
till it set.
don't remember time in all my
life when the earth and transitory
things ever looked so undesirable and
os triAipg as they did while l sal
there in that big red barber chair
with my mouth full of cold putty.
/ felt just as man might when he is
being taxidermied.
After awhile the dentist took out
the cast. 1t was cloudy day and Sc
1t didn't look much like me after all.
If it had 1 would have sent you one.
After I'd set again two or three times
we got pretty fair likeness. he said,
and went home, having paid six
dallars and left my address.
Three weeks after that a small boy
came with my new teeth.
They were nice. white, shiny teeth.
and did not look very ghostly after
had become used to them. i wished
at first that the gums had been a
duiler red and that the teeth had not
looked so new. I put them in my
mouth, but they felt cold and distant.
I took them out and warmed them
in the sunlight. People going by
no doubt thought that 1 did it to
show that / was able TO have new
teeth. but that was not the case.
Iwore them all that forenoon while
/ butchered. There were times dur.
ing the forenoon when / wanted to
take them out. but when a man is
butchering he hates to take his teeth
out just because they hurt.
Neighbors told me that after my
mouth got hardened on the inside it
would feel better.
But. oh, how 1t relieved me at
night to take those teeth out and put
them on the top of cool bureau,
where the wind could blow through